GNU Assembler - Compiler

GNU Assembler is an open source compiler created in 1986.

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The GNU Assembler, commonly known as gas or simply as, its executable name, is the assembler used by the GNU Project. It is the default back-end of GCC. It is used to assemble the GNU operating system and the Linux kernel, and various other software. Read more on Wikipedia...

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Early development of GNU Assembler happened in GNU Project
First announcement of GNU Assembler
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See also: (8 related languages) C, Unix, PowerPC, MIPS architecture, ARM, Linux, IA-32, X86

Example from Wikipedia:

.global	_start

.text
_start:
	movl  $4, %eax
	movl  $1, %ebx
	movl  $msg, %ecx
	movl  $len, %edx
	int   $0x80

	movl  $1, %eax
	movl  $0, %ebx
	int   $0x80
.data
msg:
	.ascii  "Hello, world!\n"
	len =   . - msg